Speaker
Dr
José Benlloch
(IFIC, Valencia)
Description
We have constructed a small animal PET with four identical detector modules, each
consisting of a continuous LSO crystal attached to a Flat Panel PSPMT. The
dimensions of the continuous crystal are 50 × 50 mm2 and 10 mm thickness. The
modules are separated 11 cm between each other in the scanner. In this paper we
discuss the method used for the calibration of the camera for this spetial system
with continuous detectors and the first results obtained with simple phantoms and
the Derenzo phantom. We also present the preliminary values for the main
performance parameters such as spatial and time resolution, energy resolution, and
random and scatter fractions.
Author
Dr
José Benlloch
(IFIC, Valencia)
Co-authors
Mrs
Ana Ros
(IFIC, Valencia)
Mr
Antonio González
(IFIC, Valencia)
Mr
Christoph Lerche
(IFIC, Valencia)
Dr
Filomeno Sánchez
(IFIC, Valencia)
Mr
Francisco García de Quirós
(GEM-IMAGING SA)
Mr
Jorge Martínez
(Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
Mr
Juan Catret
(IFIC, Valencia)
Mr
Leiva Modia
(GEM-IMAGING SA)
Mr
Marcos Giménez
(IFIC, Valencia)
Mr
Vicente Carrilero
(GEM-IMAGING SA)
Prof.
Ángel Sebastiá
(Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
